Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week. This week they talk about how cloud CapEx has doubled since 2014, how bad the Cisco ASA flaw is, and a survey that shows CIOs like buzzwords.

In this edition of Gestalt News:
– We talk to Jack Daniel for our IT Origins interview series
– A review of the Cherry MX Board Silent Keyboard
– Tom Hollingsworth shares his initial thoughts from Cisco Live Europe in the Gestalt IT Rundown

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week, looking at Tom’s takeaways from Cisco Live Europe last week, Intel selling a stake in it’s wearable business, and better visibility into public cloud earnings.

In this edition of Gestalt News:
– Tom Hollingsworth breaks down what GDPR means for your data
– Enrico Signoretti sits down for the IT Origins Interview
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses why licensing models matter

A New Year, a new iteration of Gestalt News!
On tap for this week:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses Intent-Based Networking
– The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the biggest news stories of 2017
– and Rich Stroffolino debates is data is the new…solar?

When you’re hearing a briefing from a IT company, it’s easy to get bogged down in new features, architectural changes, and value propositions. What often gets lost when taking a high level overview is the actual implementation and living with a solution long term. Jake Snyder does a great job illustrating the licensing morass that […]

It’s been over a year since the last time Tom Hollingsworth took a look at Arista and Cisco and the titanic cage match they’ve been fighting. It’s been three years since the announcement of the lawsuit and there’s been enough back-and-forth to make this a Wimbledon tennis match. After three years, where does everything stand?

Despite some technical hurdles, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino return to bring you the IT news from the week that was! In this episode they rundown new announcements from Nutanix, Cisco, AWS, and Sprint. They then dig into the two big stories of the week, the VMware acquisition of VeloCloud, and the merger of Broadcom and Qualcomm.

This is post 2 of 15 in the series “IT Origins” Nicholas Russo is a network consulting engineer with Cisco, CCIE, CCDE, author, Marine, and programmer. Follow him on Twitter, LinkedIn, and his site. What’s your IT origin story? How long have you been in the field? I studied Computer Science in college from 2004-2008 […]